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New Gigablue HD 800 UE/SE Plus range
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18-09-2013 12:29am#1Coming out at the end of the month.... more card readers, faster than the previous models.
- HDTV Receiver MHEG-2 H 264
- 751 MHz MIPS Processor Linux OS
- Kernel 3.xxx
- Excellent sound quality with Dolby Digital
- Installed 1x DVB-S2 satellite tuner fixed
- 1x DVB-S2 Sat Tuner Plug & Play (Optional) Twin Function
- 1x Hybrid Tuner (DVB-C & DVB-T) Plug & Play (Optional) Function Combo
- Colored LCD Display
- HDMI connection
- Component Connection
- USB PVR unterschtützung external HDD (HDD Optional)
- 1xCommoninterface (CI)
- 2xCardreader
- 2 x USB 2.0
- Ethernet port 10/100 Mbps
- GigaBlue Gigabit USB Adapter (Optional)
- GigaBlue 300Mbps USB 2.0 WiFi Adapter (Optional)
- S / PDIF Optical connector
- Flash: 128 MB / RAM: 512 MB DDR3
- USB port formats for recording TV or Radioübetragungen and playing various video, audio, and image or personal photos (USB Optional)
- Timeshift
- Program memory indefinitely
- Program switching less than 1 second
- Electronic TV Programme Guide (EPG)
- Teletext
- Youth Protection
- Plugin Service
- OSD in many languages and graphics (skins)
- Web interface, WEB Remotcontrol
- Video outputs (HDMI (RGB, CVBS), Component (YPbPr)
- DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
- External power supply 12V
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New one is a lot faster iba.
Starting to appear on one or two sites.
The SE version is €209. The UE version is €239 (1 DVB-S2 & 1 DVB-T)
You are the bearer of good news aren't you
That link did not open for me.
Still trying to get my head around this box and the Vix image and all the technical words. Not that easy for me eventhough GBCullen has been a great help. Even reading the forums/threads in WoS is not that easy.
Did you know that the Gigablue instruction manual does not come in English; just German
But at least I have the Sats tuned in and I have been experimenting with the different built in channel lists and I can watch everything I want.0 -
You are the bearer of good news aren't you
That link did not open for me.
Still trying to get my head around this box and the Vix image and all the technical words. Not that easy for me eventhough GBCullen has been a great help. Even reading the forums/threads in WoS is not that easy.
Did you know that the Gigablue instruction manual does not come in English; just German
But at least I have the Sats tuned in and I have been experimenting with the different built in channel lists and I can watch everything I want.
Yeah.... sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The Quad is even faster again @1.3G and start at €260.
Vix is simple enough.
For Linux box you will also need.
Filezilla Great for connecting to your box and editing the files etc.
Dreamset This allows you to pick whatever satellites you want and it will download the channels off the net for you. You can edit it and reorder and add favourites list, save as Enigma 2 lamedb (master on your PC) and then send it to your box over your wifi.
Everything else can be downloaded by connecting a ethernet cable to your router or USB Wifi.
Ask away. I have a VU+, same idea. Getting one of these new Gigablues though.0 -
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The Plus range is only just released so whilst it has superior hardware I would suspect the software side would be at a less advanced stage than on the non Plus receivers .
Thats the problem with buying a newly released Linux receiver ,the Enigma 2 images are usually buggy and need 6 months of development to iron the bugs out.
Well I was wrong about that. Something that doesnt seem to be publicised at present is that the UE+ SE+ take Openvix 3.0.
The UE+ Combo is £189 plus free delivery to NI from WOS. Preinstalled with Vix. Needless to say, I got one. 0 -
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Folks,
Just got my Gigablue 800se Plus box from germany - took me over an hour to change the language to English
BTW I waited for WOS to get them in stock but was just too impatient to wait any longer.
It didn't have 28.2 listed in the satellites .. so I downloaded a (28.2) satellites.xml file from internet and copied it to var/etc folder and restarted the box - no luck. I then used whatever facilities I spotted on the box (plugin or ?) to include 28.2 in the list of satellites, box tried to save the updated satellites.xml file but gave an error on attempting to save. Have I screwed up!! Should the sats.xml file be placed in a different folder (I've since seen threads mentioning /etc/tuxbox)? Hopefully you can help.
Assuming I can get sorted on the sats.xml front, can you also advise me on getting a good sky bouquet?
Update - I read on another forum that the sats.xml should be placed in \etc\enigma2 folder which overrides the file in the etc\tuxbox folder
Cheers,
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Folks,
Just got my Gigablue 800se Plus box from germany - took me over an hour to change the language to English BTW I waited for WOS to get them in stock but was just too impatient to wait any longer.
It didn't have 28.2 listed in the satellites .. so I downloaded a (28.2) satellites.xml file from internet and copied it to var/etc folder and restarted the box - no luck. I then used whatever facilities I spotted on the box (plugin or ?) to include 28.2 in the list of satellites, box tried to save the updated satellites.xml file but gave an error on attempting to save. Have I screwed up!! Should the sats.xml file be placed in a different folder (I've since seen threads mentioning /etc/tuxbox)? Hopefully you can help.
Assuming I can get sorted on the sats.xml front, can you also advise me on getting a good sky bouquet?
Update - I read on another forum that the sats.xml should be placed in \etc\enigma2 folder which overrides the file in the etc\tuxbox folder
Cheers,
Michael
Maybe you might benefit from putting an image on the box like Vix or Blackhole. Then you can just upload as a plugin a good sky bouquet0 -
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I'd consider moving to OpenATV just to get STB support
Remember I'm a newbie and the last thing I need at this early stage is to consider re-flashing ..
I am new too and STB has taught me so much.
Flashing is not hard though. You just put the image on a memory stick. Turn off receiver. Plug in memory stick and when the receiver boots the option to install from memory stick will appear.
Check these links out, they might help:
http://www.opena.tv/forum/forumdisplay.php?12-openATV-Images
http://www.opena.tv/forum/forumdisplay.php?166-Gigablue-SE-Plus
I'm sure STB will be around at some time and guide you precisely.0 -
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@STB - I'm tempted to invest in a Gigablue quad, but would like some advice. Background first - I have a Freesat Foxsat HD box for years now with the firmware mods for the webinterface, FTP, twonky, channel editor etc. This handles the standard sat TV viewing/recording for myself and SWMBO. Separately I have a media PC with a DVB-T usb stick which handles the terrestrial side of things and runs openelec/xbmc which handles terrestrial recording and most importantly (for me), my CD/SACD/DVD-audio recordings, many of which are multichannel lossless (5.1 PCM audio from FLAC files) into my AV amp. I can also stream extra satellite channels from another PC connected to a motorised dish through this media PC as needed.
Ideally, I would like to combine my terrestrial and main satellite into one box which would have on-board HDD and which would have a good EPG. Again, ideally, it should have SCART output as well as HDMI as mostly SWMBO prefers to just switch on the TV and the sat box and not have to faff about with the AV amp etc. I think this cuts out the Gigablue as it doen't seem to have SCART. I'm not sure if the Amiko Alien2 would be a better choice or whether I would need to spend a lot more and go for the VU+duo2 ? I've no issue with playing with linux boxes and my main PC is running ubuntu so I am familiar with the environment, but once the box is installed it needs to be wife-friendly!
What suggestions for further research on my part?
No matter what Enigma box you are thinking of buying they will all have the same wife patience issue at start up - if switched on from cold boot. They are not immediate (like a Foxsat/Ferguson). There is a boot time which can be up to 2 mins - on a QUAD this may be less as they have a 1.3g processor. Either way all these E2 boxes they do have HDMI CEC which you can set to switch to a certain port at switch on, so no faffing about with your TV's remote.
The Amiko Alien 2 does have a Scart connection, but they do not run true E2 images, the run hacked versions of E2 images. A lot of stuff is still not available for them as E2 is written for Broadcom chipsets. The Amiko's use STi chips. There userbase is growing, but its still a betamax vs VHS scenario. My advice, they are cheap but that is all. They also only have 3 tuners.
The Gigablue QUAD can have 2 dvb-t and 2 dvb-s2 tuners. I dont have one. I have the 800UE+ which is a DVB-T/DVB-S combo which runs at half the procesing power of the QUAD but is still a lot faster than my VU+Uno. The software is much the same. Once E2 image is configured its walk away (if you want to). The type setup you have with your media server etc would be accesible through the box - they run lots of nice plugins.
For more info on the QUAD ask Slegs as he has one (thread on them)
Compared with Vu+ gear the gigablues are fairly priced for the hardware that is in them (more for your buck). They also run the same type E2 images (although are not interchangeable). The Final key to the Gigablues is the support team. A lot of the Gigablue gear is German based support and images - ATV/Openmips. Vix on WOS may be supporting them, but it took them 4 months to release an image for the SE+/UE+ range.
Infact, if you wait til next month there is a new version of the QUAD coming out called the QUAD plus which is a lot of processing power and 1gig lan. The remote can also control your A/V. Again check that the likes of Vix will be supporting them.
New Gigablue Quad Plus - due out in April 2014
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